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Cessna clips pickup during emergency landing on busy Florida road; no one hurt
A 1963 Cessna 172 with two pilots aboard made an emergency landing on Bayshore Road near Interstate 75 in North Fort Myers, Florida, on Saturday and struck the back of a pickup truck, the Lee County Sheriff's Office said. No injuries were reported, and the FAA is leading the investigation.
A small plane carrying two pilots made an emergency landing on a busy road in North Fort Myers, Florida, around noon Saturday and struck the back of a pickup truck as it came down, the Lee County Sheriff's Office said. The single-engine Cessna 172D landed on Bayshore Road near Interstate 75 after the pilots experienced a mechanical issue, according to the sheriff's office, which said the plane hit the rear of a pickup traveling east on Bayshore. No injuries were reported.
The video, recorded by a driver who wrote on Facebook that the plane had "just landed in front of me," shows the blue-and-white Cessna, tail number N2905U, rolling along the road beside a white pickup truck as other cars keep moving around it. Later shots, filmed from across the grassy median, show the aircraft sitting in the traffic lanes as cars and trucks continue to move around it.
"Especially grateful"
"Thankfully, this incident had a positive outcome, and no one was injured," Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. "Given the recent tragic news involving aviation accidents, we are especially grateful that everyone is safe." He thanked deputies, the Florida Department of Transportation's Southwest Florida office and Bayshore Fire Rescue for their response, and wrote on X that "LCSO Patrol & FDOT safely relocated the aircraft while FAA works to assume the investigation."
Marceno's remark came six days after a Learjet 60 crashed near Greenacres in Palm Beach County on Nov. 1, killing all nine people aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating that crash.
One driver on Bayshore Road, Brandon Hinson, told WGCU the plane was coming in nose-down and he sped up to get clear. "It landed probably 20 maybe 30 feet behind the truck and trailer I was driving," he said. "I was just trying to stay out of the way."
Second road landing since August
Federal Aviation Administration registry records list N2905U as a Cessna 172D built in 1963 and registered to a private owner in Bonita Springs. Flight-tracking data cited by CBS12 show the plane took off from Sebring, Florida, around 11 a.m. Saturday and came down on Bayshore Road about 50 minutes later.
It was not the aircraft's first unscheduled stop on a highway. On Aug. 29, the Highlands County Sheriff's Office said a Cessna 172 carrying three people made an emergency landing on U.S. 98 in Sebring after developing engine trouble on a flight from Fort Myers; photos released by that sheriff's office show the same tail number. All three escaped injury, FOX 13 reported at the time.
Officials have not said what failed on Saturday's flight. The FAA is the lead agency in the investigation, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
Video: Danny Roldan/Facebook via social media. Photos: Lee County Sheriff's Office
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